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by dboreham 2275 days ago
Everything I've seen matches up with the Chinese data (when adjusting for test coverage for mild symptom patients). Where are you seeing this 10x higher number?
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https://www.nationalreview.com/news/wuhan-residents-dismiss-...

> Wuhan residents are increasingly skeptical of the Chinese Communist Party’s reported coronavirus death count of approximately 2,500 deaths in the city to date, with most people believing the actual numbers is at least 40,000

https://www.newsweek.com/wuhan-covid-19-death-toll-may-tens-...

> Some Wuhan residents estimate that the coronavirus death toll could be 26,000, based on the amount of urns being delivered and distributed across the city. Citizens on Chinese social media have said that seven Wuhan funeral homes will likely distribute 3,500 urns per day on average from March 23 to April 4, which marks Qing Ming, the traditional tomb-sweeping festival. By that estimate, 42,000 urns would be given out in the 12-day period.

Just a few sources, you can find many others if you look though.

The two links seems to point to the same source, and:

> Trucks dropped off roughly 2,500 urns on Wednesday and again on Thursday local time to one of the eight local funeral homes, a driver told Chinese media outlet Caixin. The news site also published another photo showing 3,500 urns stacked inside the facility. The number of urns that arrived in that one funeral home was far greater than the city's official overall death COVID-19 toll.

Note that the numbers given are for EMPTY urns.

> Some Wuhan residents estimate that the coronavirus death toll could be 26,000, based on the amount of urns being delivered and distributed across the city. Citizens on Chinese social media have said that seven Wuhan funeral homes will likely distribute 3,500 urns per day on average from March 23 to April 4, which marks Qing Ming, the traditional tomb-sweeping festival.

Note that this is based on "some random Wuhan residents playing numbers on social network".

> some random Wuhan residents playing numbers on social network

Yeah, when the government hides information and imprisons journalists, that's all we're left with, isn't it?

They're not the same source, by the way. They're multiple different community sources reporting the same information.